Teaching Tenses and Its Problems on Pandemic Covid-19 (A Case Study at The Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 1 Siman)

Nurmiati, Putri Dwi (2021) Teaching Tenses and Its Problems on Pandemic Covid-19 (A Case Study at The Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 1 Siman). Undergraduate (S1) thesis, IAIN Ponorogo.

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NURMIATI, PUTRI DWI. 2021. Teaching Tenses and Its Problems on Pandemic Covid-19 (A Case Study at The Eighth Grade Students of SMPN 1 Siman. Thesis, English Education Department, Tarbiyah and Teachers Training Faculty, State Institute of Islamic Studies Ponorogo. Advisor Dra. Aries Fitriani, M.Pd.

Keywords: Teaching Tenses, Simple Past Tense, Pandemic Covid-19
Grammar is one of the important things of English. Without grammar, a person cannot speak and write correctly. One of the scopes of grammar is tenses. Tenses become the most difficult lesson according to students. Therefore, teaching tenses needs attention and strategies to make students enjoy in learning. Moreover on pandemic covid-19, teaching learning process changed into online. Included in teaching tenses, it is also conducted by online.
Covid-19 is the latest pandemic faces by Indonesia and other countries in the world. Corona Virus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) is a RNA virus, with a typical crown-like appearance under an electron microscope due to the presence of glycoprotein spikes on its envelope. It has affected all sectors in Indonesia, included in education. The implementation of teaching-learning changed from face to face to virtual learning.
The purposes of this research were to describe the strategies are used by the teacher in teaching tenses on pandemic covid-19 at SMPN 1 Siman, describe the media are used in teaching tenses on pandemic covid-19 at SMPN 1 Siman, investigate the problems in teaching and learning tenses on pandemic covid-19 at SMPN 1 Siman, and to explain the efforts in solving the problems of teaching tenses on pandemic covid-19 at SMPN 1 Siman.
This research applied qualitative approach and used case study design. It was conducted to the eighth grade students of SMPN 1 Siman in academic year 2020/2021. The data were collected by observation, interview and documentation. Observation was conducted to observe the implementation of teaching-learning tenses in SMPN 1 Siman using online media. Interview was used to know more detail about the process of teaching learning tenses and the problems that could not be known by observation. While Documentation was applied as a support of the data had been collected by observation and interview. The data were analyzed using three steps of data analysis techniques. They were data reduction, data display, and conclusion and verification.
The result of this research showed that the strategy used by the teacher in teaching tenses on pandemic covid-19 was EGRA (Explanation, Generalization, Reinforcement, and Application). However, generalization and reinforcement phase were omitted by the teacher because of limited time. So, she only explained about simple past tense, include the definition, function, formula, and examples. Then, she gave some questions related to simple past tense as the application phase.
The media used in teaching learning tenses on this pandemic were google form application and whatsapp. Google form was used to share the material of tenses to the students. Whatsapp was used to give instruction to the students about the activities of learning.
There were some problems faced in teaching and learning tenses during pandemic. They were media and internet access, students laziness, and clueless of technology of the teacher. To face them, the English teacher of SMPN 1 Siman had some efforts, such as allowing the students who didn’t have smart phone to use school computer in laboratory. Meanwhile, to the students who had already had smart phone but could not access internet, they were allowed to come to school to do their assignments using wifi in the school, always reminding the students about their assignments, and the teacher asked for help to other teachers in using the application.
From the result above, it can be concluded that SMPN 1 Siman was also affected by covid-19. It was known by the implementation of teaching learning at SMPN 1 Siman that was conducted by online. The strategy used in teaching tenses on pandemic covid-19 at SMPN 1 Siman was EGRA. While the media used in teaching tenses on pandemic-19 were google form and whatsapp. The problems faced in teaching learning tenses on pandemic covid-19 were media and internet access, students laziness and clueless of technology of the teacher. Therefore, the efforts in solving those problems were allowing the students who didn’t have smart phone to use school computer, allowing the students who has already had smart phone but could not access the internet to use school wifi, reminding the students about their assignments, and asking for help to other teachers in using the application.

Item Type: Thesis (Undergraduate (S1))
Thesis Supervisor: Aries Fitriani
Subjects: 13 EDUCATION > 1399 Other Education > 139999 Education not elsewhere classified
Divisions: Fakultas Ilmu Tarbiyah dan Keguruan > Jurusan Tadris Bahasa Inggris
Depositing User: Miss Perpustakaan IAIN Ponorogo
Date Deposited: 02 Jun 2021 03:17
Last Modified: 02 Jun 2021 03:20
URI: http://etheses.iainponorogo.ac.id/id/eprint/14529

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